Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 3rd Edition, May 2006

Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 10g RAC
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters
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Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters
NOTE Some versions of Oracle RAC requires installation of additional software.
Refer to your version of Oracle for specific requirements.
Before installing the Oracle Real Application Cluster software, make
sure the storage cluster is running. Login as the oracle user on one node
and then use the Oracle installer to install Oracle software and to build
the correct Oracle runtime executables. When executables are installed
to a local file system on each node, the Oracle installer copies the
executables to the other nodes in the cluster.
For details on Oracle installation, refer to the Oracle installation
documentation. As part of this installation, the Oracle installer installs
the executables and optionally, the Oracle installer can build an Oracle
demo database on the primary node. The demo database files can be the
character (raw) device files names for the logical volumes create earlier.
For a demo database on SLVM or CVM, create logical volumes as shown
in Table 2-1, “Required Oracle File Names for Demo Database.” As the
installer prompts for the database file names, either the pathnames of
the raw logical volumes instead of using the defaults. If you do not wish
to install the demo database, select install software only.